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Post subject: American Deluxe Series redesigned for 2010
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 4:23 am
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At least the USA Deluxe P-Bass comes with an active/passive switch and a host of new incredible features!

The revised version dropped the big humbucker and the 22-fret abalone inlaid maple neck of the earlier models and added a new N3 stacked-coil Jazz Bass pickup in the bridge position.

Other features include a 21-fret graphite-reinforced modern C-shape maple neck with clay or black dot markers, glossed maple or rosewood fingerboard, a HMV bridge, Hipshot vintage lightweight tuners, an active/passive toggle switch and a bold CBS-era decal.


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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 7:26 pm
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That is an great looking instrument.

I bet it will sound great as well.

Go Fender!


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Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:42 am
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My gripe is the new Deluxe basses had the 22nd fret removed. The MOP abalone dots were also gone from the fretboard and the silver-foiled spaghetti logo of the '50s has been replaced by the infamous CBS-era decals. The Jazz necks are now bound with rectangular block-inlaid fingerboards like their '70s ancestors.

I hoped Fender keeping the 22-fret neck and the downsized body of the older models and reduce the bridge pickup slot to accommodate the N3 stacked Jazz Bass pickup. Same thing for the Jazz Bass also.

Bad luck. The new American Deluxe basses are not enough good in my taste as I'd expected. Fender should bring back the better-looking features of the older US Deluxe models and simply retooling them.

A new American Deluxe bass guitar would have the essential key features: the same downsized body and pickguard shapes, the 22-fret design, the silver foil '50s spaghetti logo and the abalone dots on the board. The only upgrades would be the HMV bridge, the Hipshot vintage lightweight tuners, the N3 stacked Jazz bridge pickup (on the Precision) with the active/passive switch and the compound radiused necks with the glossy fretboards.


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Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 9:30 pm
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Disappointing. :(


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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:43 pm
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chromeface wrote:

A new American Deluxe bass guitar would have the essential key features: the same downsized body and pickguard shapes, the 22-fret design, the silver foil '50s spaghetti logo and the abalone dots on the board. The only upgrades would be the HMV bridge, the Hipshot vintage lightweight tuners, the N3 stacked Jazz bridge pickup (on the Precision) with the active/passive switch and the compound radiused necks with the glossy fretboards.


The downsized body, abalone dots and '50s logo would be better. I would like to see the matching headstock color on painted models as well.


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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:30 am
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Wow, haha, the new ones don't look near as featured or as mean. I have an '08 maple neck/3t sunburst . I absolutely love the big humbucker. Things a friggin tone monster. It would be cool to have a toggle switch for passive/active though. I may be wrong but it seems like they kinda cheapened it up a bit. To me the American Deluxe line always seemed premium or top notch . This was evident to me in all American Deluxe models I have came across. I guess it just makes mine all that more precious. :P


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...and still no 5-string.


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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:00 pm
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Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 11:09 pm
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93greenstrat wrote:
...and still no 5-string.


The old Deluxe series basses had 7/8 size bodies compared to the American standard and vintage series basses, because they had 22-fret necks. It is funny how many people now say that they didn't like the small bodies. When other companies did that it was welcomed. And I liked them because it was different than the regular stuff. Now they seem to have modelled them after their popular sellers, the 70's Classic and AV '75 Jazz Bass, the Marcus Miller, Tony Franklin and Geddy Lee signature models.

I always liked the 70's Fenders but I don't want to see it go over the edge. If I want 70's style basses from Fender I want vintage specs. If I want a modern Fender bass I would want the Deluxe with the specs they used to have.

Well, they can't win them all, my opinion seems to belong to the minority, and these might be popular for some time. I wonder why they try something different, like blocks on the P too as well as double P like the old Elite basses. Offering ebony boards on them would be nice.

And how about fretless 5ers?


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Hmmm........I want.


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